Methodists

Will Willimon’s story of his childhood congregation contrasts the salt-of-the-earth people who formed him with the conservative minority that took over later.

Journalist John Archibald turns the spotlight on himself, his preacher father, and White Christians’ failures.

J. Philip Wogaman tried to surrender his ordination. Would this have helped?

When a revival took root among Methodists, U.S. church authorities demanded that local leaders disavow it. They refused.

Yes, Go Set a Watchman has its problems; yes, it needed an editor. Yet one senses that this fiction has grown out of a life lived.

Other states have a history of violence, suspicion of government, and more Baptists than people. What makes Texas different? Robert Wuthnow says it’s oil.

On two occasions I decided to become Catholic. Both times I had to wait because I had been asked to preach or preside as a Methodist.

“I wanted to create a different kind of preacher—someone who would be in opposition to what would be normal in a small town like that.”